Improvement in lock-nuts for railway joints



WILLIAM P. HORTON.

Improvement in Lock Nuts for Railway Joints.

N0. 119,757. l I Patnted Oc. I0, 1871.

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NITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

WILLIAM P. HoHToN, or MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, AssIeNoE To'HiMSELE AND JoHN B. SMITH, or SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN LOCK-NUTS FOR RAILWAY JINTS.

Specieation forming part of Letters Patent No. 119,767, dated October 10, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM I); HoR'roN, o1 Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee, in the State of Wisconsin, have invented certain Improvements in Fastenings for Nuts in Railway Joints, of which the following is a specification:

My invention relates to the matter of fastening nuts from unsorewing, when screwed upon bolts or railway joints, by erooking the end of a bar lying alongside of the nuts and driving its ends under the sh-plate, or of cutting holes in a bar or metal plate and putting it on over the nuts, and erooking its ends and driving them under the fish-plate.

Figure l, a view of a bar or plate with holes eut in it lying on over the nuts, and its ends driven under the ends of the fish-plate. Fig. 2 is a view of a bar lying alongside 0I the nuts on a sh-plate-with its ends driven under the ends of the sh-plate; Fig. 3, an edgewise view of a iish-plate with a bar lying alongside of the nuts and the ends driven under the ends of the fishplate and Fig. 4, an end view of the bar, lishplate, and rail.

A is the railway rail; B, bar or plate with holes in it for the nuts to come through, and lying over the nuts on the fish-plate, with its ends crooked and driven under the fish-plate; C, nuts and bolts which hold the ish plate up to the rail; D, fish-plates; E, bar which lays alongside of the nuts and hooks under the fish-plate.

This fastening is simple, strong, and effective. The ends hooking over the iish-plate hold the bar firmly in position and keep the nuts from turning. The end of the fish-plate being raised a little from the rail leaves an opening' large enough for the ends of the bar to be driven under.

I claim- The plate B or E, held in position by means of its ends turned inward and driven under the fish- Witnesses J. B. SMITH,

A. H. LORD. 120) 

